Changes in the Nutrient Composition of Barley Grain (Hordeum vulgare L.) and of Morphological Fractions of Sprouts

Table 1

Moisture content in raw and sprouted barley grain and in morphological fractions of sprouts and proportion of morphological fractions of sprouts.

	Barley grain
	Raw grain	Sprouted		Pooled SEM	Significance
Moisture (g kg^−1)	88.5 ± 0.00	788.8 ± 1.06		3.75
	Morphological fractions of sprouts
	Green shoots	RSSG plus UG	Roots	Pooled SEM	Significance
Moisture (g kg^−1)	897.5 ± 4.0^a	758.3 ± 5.91^b	934.2 ± 6.70^c	2,83
Proportion in sprout biomass (g kg^−1)
On fresh-matter basis	67.8 ± 9.21^a	829.0 ± 11.29^b	103.2 ± 6.28^c	4.59
On DM basis	32.5 ± 5.84^a	935.8 ± 6.03^b	31.7 ± 1.21^a	2.45

^a–cMeans with different superscripts within the same subheading and row are significantly different (). Values are means of 4 replicates (each replicate was a composite sample from 4 subsamples). RSSG: residual structures of sprouted grain: UG: unsprouted grain.